Current Exhibition

Howard Hodgkin in Venice, a new exhibition at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery at the George Washington University, displays four prints from Howard Hodgkin's "Venetian Series" alongside a rug designed by Mr. Hodgkin and a painting titled
Little Venice. A companion exhibition, Italy Inspiration, showcases photographs and prints from the GW Collection and paintings by GW alumni and a GW professor emeritus depicting the feel of Italy as well as the country's unique sites.

Mr. Hodgkin (1923-2017), a British painter, completed more than 120 lithographs, etchings and screen prints during his career. The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery recently received a gift of 10 prints including the series "Venetian Views" from
1995. The gift came from Carleen Keating, a collector, patron and GW alumna. This suite of four large-scale prints, measuring approximately 5 by 6 feet each, mirror Mr. Hodgkin's paintings in size and the stylistic feeling provided by hand
coloring and a brushstroke-like mark. A Hodgkin-designed rug accompanies the artworks. The run was gifted to GW recently by the late artist's partner Antony Peattie and facilitated by Dr. Luther W. Brady.

"We are fortunate to have these works by Howard Hodgkin and a collection that allows us to curate various themes in which multiple artists have had their creativity stirred by this celebrated city," Lenore Miller, director of the Brady Art
Gallery, said. The GW alumni with featured works are Kay Jackson, Paul Reuther, Bradley Stevens and former director of the painting program at GW and Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts William Woodward.

Mr. Hodgkin represented Britain in the 1984 Venice Biennale, was the recipient of the Turner Prize in 1985, and knighted in 1992. Mr. Hodgkin was well-respected for his paintings, prints and set and costume design, as well as for being a
collector of Mughal Indian art. The GW exhibition celebrates the enduring friendship of collectors and artists and Mr. Hodgkin's continued legacy at the Brady Gallery. Mr. Hodgkin's work previously has been exhibited on campus in a 1984
exhibition in the Dimock Gallery, Howard Hodgkin Prints: Visions and Collaboration and in Howard Hodgkin: Paintings at the Brady Gallery in 2012.

The Washington Color School was a visual arts movement that spanned the late 1950s through the late 1960s and was centered in Washington. Artists associated with this movement painted nonrepresentational works and were central to the larger
color-field movement. Many of the artists who were part of the Washington Color School were linked, in their early days, to the Corcoran College of Arts & Design and the Corcoran Museum.

"We inaugurate the Brady Art Gallery's new location in the Flagg Building with a high quality exhibition indicative of the many major ones staged at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery over the past 15 years," Ms. Miller, director of GW's art
galleries and chief curator, said. "For this exhibition, we aspire to showcase the grand nature of this historic building with its rich history of teaching and exhibitions."

To complement works from the GW collection for this exhibition and bring many of the artists back together in the same place, the gallery borrowed works from artists, private collections, other galleries and museums including the Reading
Public Museum, Bethesda Fine Art and Yares Art, New York.

"The homecoming is making me teary already," artist Ann Purcell said. Purcell taught painting, drawing and art history for many years at the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

Art collections are made up of more than just objects; they consist of stories of people, cities and institutions. The George Washington University began building its collection of art in 1821. It now owns more than 4,000 drawings, paintings,
prints, photographs and sculptures. This exhibition presents highlights of GW's collection specifically selected to trace the university's history and evolution as a presenter of contemporary art as well as an institution of training for artists
and humanists now and in the future; a charge made more tangible through GW's recent merger with the Corcoran School of Art and Design. Presented in addition to the exhibitions at the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, this selection is an opportunity
for the public to view works from the university's collection in a different setting.

Works in the exhibition include works by Washington Color School notables such as Gene Davis, Howard Mehring and Alma Thomas; alongside newer acquisitions from artists such as Michael Craig-Martin, Robin Rose and Susan Roth. Included is an
interactive timeline demonstrating the almost 50 year impact of the Dimock and Luther W. Brady Art Galleries to the history of art in D.C.

This exhibition is organized by the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery with the support of the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum staff. Partial support for the exhibition was provided by the Frances and Leonard K. Burka
Fund for the Arts, the Friends of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery and Meredith Mickelson.